The atmosphere froze.

In fact, when Ikeda glanced back at Gu Yun at night, his hands trembled with fright.

"Why don't I take you to the foxes' lair?"

Ikeda Ashaya proposed.

The shrine maidens built a nest for the foxes to live in the back mountain, and when she was a trainee shrine maiden, she went to the shrine several times with the foxes who came to the shrine to beg for food, and most of the nests were newly born little milk foxes, and whenever someone went, they would "humble" and bark.

"I want to visit the god you worship where he usually lives."

Gu Yun had gradually lost interest in the fox on the mountain, but if he could meet the god Inari enshrined in the shrine, it would be worth the trip.

"I'm afraid this can't be done, the god Inari never shows people easily."

Ikeda shook his head at night, and even every chief shrine maiden could not see the Inari deity.

"Then let's go around the lair!"

Luo Xin took over the conversation, she had been secretly observing Seventeen, the latter's attitude of wanting to speak and stopping was so funny, obviously he liked small animals such as foxes, but he had been holding back his refusal to speak because of his face, and when Ikeda mentioned that he was going to the lair to observe just now, Seventeen's eyes lit up.

"Yes, the opportunity for teachers is rare, and ordinary people can't get there."

The rough roads and dense trees on the mountain are partly due to this, but more importantly, if an idle person approaches the nest, the adult fox will arch his head against the intruder's leg, and the mountain fox almost never attacks the pilgrims in the temple, but if the pilgrims do, they are likely to be attacked by the foxes.

"Although the foxes on the mountain usually look fluffy and cute, if they are bitten coldly, they will also open their skin, and there have been pilgrims who tried to steal foxes when they were discovered by the witch, and after hearing that they were fined a large sum of money, they were sent to prison."

"Walk along this fork in the road to the woods, this side is relatively quiet, pilgrims rarely come here, and some sisters who want to learn spells quietly usually come here to study...... Well, something doesn't seem right today. ”

Ikeda's explanation was interrupted by a burst of screams.

The noise on the hill was no less than that of pilgrims, and the deeper you went into the woods, the noisier the crows became.

"I think there aren't a few crows on the mountain."

In folklore, crows are a symbol of bad luck, and pilgrims chase them away when they see them.

However, the noise sounded clearly not a crow, but a large flock of black press.

This time, with no adult foxes standing in the way of the lair, Ikeda quickened his pace and made his way to the foxes' lair unimpeded.

Looking at the scene that was taking place near the lair, her hand subconsciously grasped the hilt of the knife, and Luo Xin and Seventeen were also ready for battle.

"Why did the crow fight the fox?"

Gu Yun looked up at the crows that were about to form a black cloud over the woods, and asked strangely.

When they arrived, many of the foxes had already been wounded, and a few of them were already lying on the ground and dying, and the shocking wounds seemed to have been pecked out by the crow's beak.

These crows are a full circle larger than ordinary crows, their claws and beaks are sharper, and each crow's eyes glow red, as if enchanted, and it looks a little terrifying from a distance.

Outside the village, monsters fight each other for territory every day, and the survival of the fittest and the weak are natural phenomena in nature.

The unnatural phenomenon was the cracks in the sky, the same cracks he had seen many times, similar cracks that could be seen everywhere when the space created by Clopera was on the verge of disintegrating.

Gu Yun felt that this was probably a phenomenon caused by the instability of space, and the crow swarm hovering in mid-air should have come out of the crack.

"They're no ordinary crows."

Ikeda's eyes froze into the night, leaning forward slightly, and in the blink of an eye, she rushed to the vicinity of the nest with lightning speed.

In a few seconds, Ikeda reached the bottom of the crows, her right foot touching the ground, and the blade curled up with a red beam of light, splitting the ravaging crow in two.

Landing on the ground, the blade is unsheathed.

The next moment, the crows fell to the ground like raindrops.

"Teacher, they are mentioned in the folklore of N City!"

Yesterday Rohin and Ikeda were chatting until early this morning, and the latter recounted many famous local folklore, including the crows that attacked the foxes: "Legend has it that these crows haunt the trees of the mountain village at night, and they speak in a voice that sounds like an old woman, and they send invitations to children who do not return home at night, and if the children agree to the invitation, the crows will eat the children's souls." ”

In small mountain villages, some people call these crows mourning birds, while others believe that they are messengers of death.

After Ikeda knocked down the crow in the night, the crack in the air shifted again, and a huge sharp claw tore open the gap.

The vision of heaven and earth frightened the foxes near the nest into trembling, and Ikeda gritted her teeth at night, and at this moment, she felt a sense of oppression that she had never felt before.

"My minions have been blessed with your hospitality, let me ...... now"

The sound that broke through the air came to an abrupt end.

When Ikeda and the other foxes came to their senses, they found that the huge body had been dragged all the way to a clearing near the woods.

"Luo Xin, you go find some firewood, and Seventeen, you go to the supermarket just now to buy some seasonings."

Gu Yun methodically commanded his students, and at the same time, he skillfully plucked the feathers from the dead blackbird one by one.

He had not heard of the legend of the mourning bird, nor was he interested in the battle between the crow and the fox.

But......

Later, the big bird that drilled out the crack knew that it was delicious at first sight.

In Gu Yun's opinion, no one should miss such a delicious food delivered to the door, today's breakfast was eaten on the mountain, the breakfast of the witches was really a little bland, the clear soup was not watery, and the lower stomach did not feel full at all.

A real warrior should eat this kind of thing.

"Don't be stunned, Ikeda, help get some water."

Ikeda did so sluggishly, splashing the water on the big bird and rubbing it gently with her hands, occasionally learning some techniques for handling ingredients from her seniors as a trainee shrine maiden.

"Teacher, what kind of monster is this big bird......

After kneading for a while, she finally couldn't help but ask.

"I haven't seen it, but I know that this meat is delicious at a glance, and I think it was difficult to meet such a fat girl's prey when I was hunting outside the village."

"But Teacher, it seems to be talking just now."

"I hear you."

Gu Yun patted the plucked bird with satisfaction to show his gratitude, "It should have wanted to say, 'Let me entertain you now', it's really hard." ”

The spirit of crossing planes to allow people to taste real food is really touching.

Ikeda looked at Big Bird and then at Gu Yun.

That's not right!

That's obviously not what it was trying to say!